Tessellation of a flat surface refers to the repeated placement of shapes with no overlaps and no gaps. These shapes are also called tiles. In mathematics, tessellations can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries.
Mathematics and art |
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- List of works designed with the golden ratio
- Continuum
- Mathemalchemy
- Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond
- Octacube
- Pi
- Pi in the Sky
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| Artists | | Renaissance | |
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19th–20th Century | |
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| Contemporary |
- Max Bill
- Martin and Erik Demaine
- Scott Draves
- Jan Dibbets
- John Ernest
- Helaman Ferguson
- Peter Forakis
- Susan Goldstine
- Bathsheba Grossman
- George W. Hart
- Desmond Paul Henry
- Anthony Hill
- Charles Jencks
- Garden of Cosmic Speculation
- Andy Lomas
- Robert Longhurst
- Jeanette McLeod
- Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
- István Orosz
- Hinke Osinga
- Antoine Pevsner
- Tony Robbin
- Alba Rojo Cama
- Reza Sarhangi
- Oliver Sin
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Daina Taimiņa
- Roman Verostko
- Margaret Wertheim
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| Theorists | | Ancient | |
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| Renaissance | |
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| Romantic |
- Samuel Colman
- Frederik Macody Lund
- Jay Hambidge
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| Modern |
- Owen Jones
- Ernest Hanbury Hankin
- The Drawing of Geometric Patterns in Saracenic Art
- G. H. Hardy
- George David Birkhoff
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Nikos Salingaros
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| Publications |
- Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- Lumen Naturae
- Making Mathematics with Needlework
- Rhythm of Structure
- Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art
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| Organizations |
- Ars Mathematica
- The Bridges Organization
- European Society for Mathematics and the Arts
- Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science
- Institute For Figuring
- Mathemalchemy
- National Museum of Mathematics
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| Related |
- Droste effect
- Mathematical beauty
- Patterns in nature
- Sacred geometry
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